Research interests

My main research areas are the philosophy of imagination and creativity, empathy, the philosophy of fiction, and philosophical methodology. Here is the link to the Geneva Research Group Creativity and Imagination: creaphil.org.

Publications

• "Experiential Imagination and Norms of Literary Engagement", forthcoming.
• "Was heisst es, eine andere Perspektive einzunehmen?", forthcoming.
• The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited together with Amy Kind, forthcoming.
• "Introduction: Reclaiming the Creative Imagination", in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (with Amy Kind).
• "Theories of Creativity", in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• "Imaginative Freedom and Epistemic Constraints in the Context of Literary Text", in: Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind, edited by Fotini Vassiliou, Efi Kyprianidou and Katerina Bantinaki, Bloomsbury 2025, pp. 45-60.
• "What is Creative Imagining?", Analysis 85:1 (2025), pp. 79-87.
• "Inneres Sprechen und mentale Bilder: Ein Kommentar zu Language, Cognition, and the Way We Think", Zeitschrift fuer Philosophische Forschung 78:3 (2024), pp. 437-441.
• "Kreative Vorstellung in Literatur und Philosophie", in: Geist und Imagination. Zur Bedeutung der Vorstellungskraft fuer Denken und Handeln, edited by Serena Gregorio, Gerson Reuter, Matthias Vogel, Christiana Werner, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2024, pp. 282-309.
• "Empathizing Across Sensibilites", Philosophical Explorations 27:2 (2024), pp. 184-196 (with Patrik Engisch).
• "How Imaginative Engagement with Art Can Connect Us with Reality", in: SDGzine special issue WHO Arts \& Health, 2024, pp. 28-30.
• "Komik und Anschaulichkeit", in Medienaesthetik der Komik, edited by Susanne Kaul and Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2023, pp. 251-264 (with Tilmann Koeppe and Tobias Klauk).
• "Two Notions of Creativity", in Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, edited by Christoph Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb and Eva Schmidt, Routledge 2022, pp. 254-271.
• "Literary Fiction and Imagination", in The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, edited by Patrik Engisch and Julia Langkau, Routledge 2022, pp. 140-156 (with Magdalena Balcerak Jackson).
• Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, edited together with Patrik Engisch, Routledge, 2022.
• "Introduction", The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, Routledge 2022, pp. 1-22 (with Patrik Engisch).
• "Truth Matters, Aesthetically", Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics L/IX:2 (2021), pp. 1-15 (with Tilmann Koeppe).
• "Two Kinds of Imaginative Vividness", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51:1 (2021), pp. 33-47.
• "On Imagining Being Someone Else", in Epistemic Uses of Imagination, edited by Christopher Badura and Amy Kind, Routledge 2021, 260-278.
• "The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us", Philosophical Psychology, 33:3 (2020), pp. 313-331.
• "Anschauliche Sachtexte?", in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes, 66:2 (2019), pp. 132-142.
• "Thought Experiments from Fiction", in: Literature as Thought Experiment, edited by Falk Bornmueller, Johannes Franzen, Mathis Lessau, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Muenchen 2019, 57-69.
• "Quellen des Wissens: Intuitionen", Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Martin Grajner (ed.), J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2019, pp. 152-158.
• "Quellen des Wissens: Imagination", Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Martin Grajner (ed.), J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2019, pp. 159-165 (with Margherita Arcangeli).
• "Fiction, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self", in: DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 6.1 (2017) (with Tilmann Koeppe).
• "Intuitionen in der analytischen Philosophie", Zuercher Philosophische Vortraege 10 (E-book), edited by Wolfgang Rother, 2017.
• "Metaphilosophy and the Role of Intuitions", Topoi, 38:4 (2019), pp. 781-789.
• "The Method of Reflective Equilibrium and Intuitions", in: Was duerfen wir glauben? Was sollen wir tun? - Sektionsbeitraege des achten internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft fuer Analytische Philosophie e.V., edited by Miguel Hoeltje, Thomas Spitzley and Wolfgang Spohn, Online publication of Universitaet Duisburg-Essen (DuEPublico) 2013, pp. 352--364.
• "Towards a Non-Rationalist Inflationist Account of Intuitions", Essays in Philosophy, 13:1 (2012), pp. 310-335.
• "Appealing to Intuitions" (Dissertation):\\ https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/3544/6/JuliaLangkauPhDThesis.pdf (2012).
• Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien, edited together with Christian Nimtz, 80:1 (2010).
• "Concepts in Philosophy -- A Rough Geography", in: Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien, 80:1 (2010), pp. 1-11 (mit Christian Nimtz).